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I Don’t Just Manage Engineers Anymore. I Manage Agents Like a Team

AI coding agents are no longer just productivity tools. They’re becoming active members of engineering teams, opening pull requests, triaging tickets and handling operational tasks. But managing them requires more than better prom…

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Nov03

Blogs

AI vs. Engineers: What the Microsoft Buyouts Really Signal

Microsoft’s buyout offers highlight how AI is reshaping engineering careers, rewarding technical judgment, verification and AI-driven development.

3 min

Oct13

AI Is Automating Code. The Job Is Engineering

AI is automating coding, but software engineering still requires human judgment. Explore what shifting developer demand means for DevOps, QA and software delivery.

3 min

Aug26

Automated Diagnosis Isn’t Automated Understanding: What Postmortems Teach Us About Building Trustworthy Incident AI

AI incident tools can reduce alert noise, but real root-cause diagnosis requires causal reasoning, live dependency context, uncertainty handling and strong postmortem data.

3 min

Aug14

Developer Resistance to AI Isn’t Fear – It is Identity

Developer resistance to AI is less about job loss than a deeper shift from hands-on coding to supervising, validating and orchestrating AI-generated work.

3 min

Jul21

AI Moved the Bottleneck From Writing Code to Understanding and Trusting It

AI coding boosts velocity, but without stronger review, governance and codebase visibility, teams risk higher costs, security gaps and production failures. TL;DR

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Jun16

Blogs

Five Technology Shifts In: Why the Hype Curve Lies in Both Directions

I’ve lived through five major technology shifts: mainframe to Windows in the early ‘90s, internet computing in the late ‘90s and early 2000s, Agile in the mid-2000s, cloud through…

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Jun09

Blogs

When the Structure Becomes the Culture

Why micro teams and rotation reshape culture, not just throughput, in modern SRE. Most SRE leaders design teams around the systems they own. We designed ours around movement. We in…

3 min

Jul17

Blogs

The Leadership Mindset for Sustainable DevOps Cost Optimization

From seeing costs as an external burden imposed by finance to recognizing them as an integral signal of engineering health.

3 min

Jul31

Blogs

4 Things Engineering Leaders are Thinking About Right Now

Spiderman and engineering leaders have something in common: They both have great power and great responsibility. Engineering leadership is more critical than ever, with more than 4…

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